Real change comes when we access deeper levels of our mind/body/spirit. Neuroscience has recently begun to study what Buddhist practitioners have known for thousands of years: Mindfulness enables us to fundamentally change how we engage our lives. My psychotherapy work builds from this possibility.

"Mindfulness" describes a quality of awareness of our present-time experience. We are "mindful" when we bring awareness to our body sensations, emotions, and thoughts, without judgment and expectations. In somatically-centered mindfulness, or Embodied Mindfulness, we explore how awareness of the body in particular facilitates a much deeper understanding of who we are and what we really need. Neuroscientist Daniel Siegel writes in The Mindful Brain, “Mindful awareness is a form of experience that seems to promote neural plasticity.” Mindfulness builds bridges between different parts of the brain, allowing for change in deeply held emotional patterns. Hakomi and Somatic Experiencing are methods that utilize Embodied Mindfulness to support fundamental change in how we experience life.

Mindfulness and the Embodied Self

Embodied Mindfulness allows us to drop more into our natural, Embodied Self.

It is here
that we find our direction, our calling, and our deepest sense of
purpose. When we live in our Embodied Self, we relate to others more
authentically. Our relationships become more meaningful and satisfying. We feel like we are living the lives we were meant to live.

Bringing It All Together

My
psychotherapy work brings together time-honored practices of
Mindfulness with cutting-edge therapeutic approaches to engaging core
belief systems, developing inner resources, and resolving trauma. I
work differently with each person, because each person is different.
But with each person, couple, family, or group, I seek to honor the
unique truth, vision, and voice that is waiting to emerge; the dream
that wants to find itself truly embodied, awake and alive.